12pt9Can I scan my own personal #library (physical #books, not e- or audio books) and use #InternetArchive as a platform so you, #friends, can borrow them for as long as needed? A #book club, so to speak.
I discovered today that the world's greatest #VideoStore, Seattle's own Scarecrow Video, has a channel on #IA. I hope today's very ill-advised ruling doesn't affect them.
Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image The central holding of the #InternetArchive court opinion is, if you own a physical book and scan it, you infringed the author's copyright by creating an unauthorized copy—even if you never use both at the same time. (This also implies that printing an ebook = infringement.) That's quite bad. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.188.0.pdf http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/